The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 244,000 people worldwide.
Over 3.4 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding the scope of their nations' outbreaks.
Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the United States has become the hardest-hit country, with more than 1.1 million diagnosed cases and at least 66,385 deaths.
Today's biggest developments:
Here's how the news is developing today. All times Eastern.
10 a.m. Ohio governor says his face mask mandate went 'too far'
One of the first U.S. governors to implement statewide closures amid the novel coronavirus outbreak says he went "too far" by mandating people to wear face masks in stores.
"It became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far. People were not going to accept the government telling them what to do," Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, said on ABC's “This Week."
DeWine, who closed schools in his state on March 12, rescinded a statewide order last week requiring face masks to be worn in stores, writing on Twitter that it became clear to him some Ohioans found it "offensive."
9 a.m.: 2.2 million small business loans approved in round 2 of PPP
About 2.2 million small business loans totaling $175 billion have been approved in the second round of the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), officials said on Sunday.
While more loans were handed out in this round, the average PPP loan is around $79,000, which is much smaller than the $200,000 loans businesses got in the first round of the program.
"Since the launch of PPP on April 3, SBA has processed over 3.8 million loans for more than half a trillion dollars of economic support in less than one month," reads a joint statement issued by U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.
Nearly 500,000 of the loans were made by lenders with less than $1 billion in assets and non-banks, including community development financial Institutions, certified development companies, microlenders, and farm credit-lending institutions, according to Carranza and Mnuchin. More than 850,000 loans, or about a third of those approved, were made by lenders with $10 billion in assets or less, they said.
7:41 a.m.: WHO official says false-positive tests caused by dead lung cells in recovering COVID patients
WHO technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove in an interview Sunday on BBC's 'The Andrew Marr Show', responding directly to the report in April that some COVID-19 patients in South Korea tested positive again afterthought to have had recovered.
"What they're finding in some individuals, after they test negative, after a week or two or even longer, they're finding that they're testing positive again. And what is actually happening is as the lungs heal there are parts of the lungs that are dead cells that are coming up that are testing, there are fragments of those lungs that are actually testing positive for PCR. It's not infectious virus, it's not reinfection it's not reactivation, it's actually part of the healing process that is captured as being positive. So that's something that's really interesting," Kerkhove said.
On the question if people can be reinfected? They don't know yet.
"What we're learning right now is, when somebody is infected with COVID-19, they develop antibodies and they develop part of an immune response, one to two to three weeks after infection. What we're trying to understand is in that antibody response does that mean that they have immunity? Does it mean that they have a strong protection against re-infection? And if so, how long that protection lasts. We don't know the answer to that yet."
6:44 a.m.: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks about government's contingency plan if he died from his coronavirus infection
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the British government had a contingency plan for his death as he battled COVID-19 in an intensive care unit last month in an interview with The Sun newspaper published on Sunday.
Johnson, 55, returned to work last Monday about a month after testing positive for COVID-19 where he spent 10 days in isolation in Downing Street before he was taken to London’s St Thomas’ Hospital and placed into an intensive care ward.
"I was told I had to go into St Thomas’. I said I really didn’t want to go into hospital. It didn’t seem to me to be a good move but they were pretty adamant. Looking back, they were right to force me to go,” Johnson said in the interview. “They had a strategy to deal with a ‘death of Stalin’-type scenario. It was a tough old moment, I won’t deny it.”
Johnson confirmed that doctors discussed invasive ventilation to treat him.
“The bad moment came when it was 50-50 whether they were going to have to put a tube down my windpipe,” he said. “That was when it got a bit ... they were starting to think about how to handle it presentationally. The doctors had all sorts of arrangements for what to do if things went badly wrong ... The bloody indicators kept going in the wrong direction.”
Johnson continued: “I was in denial because I was working and I kept doing these meetings by video-link. But I was really feeling pretty groggy ... I was feeling pretty wasted, not in an intoxicated way, but just, you know, pretty rough.”
1:55 a.m.: NFL spokesman confirms that the NFL plans to begin season on time
The National Football League confirmed that they will release its full 2020 schedule later this week which includes a season opener on Sept. 10 and Super Bowl LV scheduled to be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida, on Feb. 7 in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.
"We plan to start on time," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy.
NFL executive vice president Troy Vincent told The Associated Press this week that the league is doing "reasonable and responsible planning" regarding health and safety during the coronavirus pandemic.
Even though the league has not made any alterations to its fall plans, it has, however, been evaluating contingency plans in case things are not able to go ahead as planned.
One of those contingencies is delaying the season until mid-October, according to the Sports Business Journal. Playing games in empty stadiums and eliminating bye weeks have also been discussed as potential options on the table.
One option not on the table, according to ESPN, is gathering players at a centralized location to execute a season as the NBA and MLB have discussed ideas like playing at a neutral site such as Walt Disney World, Las Vegas or Arizona.
For now, the NFL and NFLPA have agreed to keep buildings closed until every state in which a team resides lifts its stay-at-home mandate and teams are currently preparing to conduct offseason workouts virtually instead of in person.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced last week that he will not accept a salary during the pandemic.
The NFL draft that was held last month was the most-watched in league history and the NFL raised more than $100 million for coronavirus relief during the draft.
10:54 p.m.: City drops mask requirement over fears of violence
The city of Stillwater, Oklahoma, has amended an emergency proclamation requiring people to wear face coverings in public after threats of violence.
In a statement, Stillwater City Manager Norman McNickle said that in three hours on May 1, while face coverings were mandatory inside stores in the city, employees were "threatened with physical violence" by people who "cite the mistaken belief the requirement is unconstitutional." One person even threatened an employee with a gun for asking them to wear a mask, according to McNickle.
"It is further distressing that these people, while exercising their believed rights, put others at risk," McNickle said in a statement. "As mentioned, there is clear medical evidence the face coverings prevent COVID-19 spread; they are recommended by both the CDC and the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The wearing of face coverings is little inconvenience to protect both the wearer and anyone with whom they have contact. And, an unprotected person who contracts the virus can infect their own loved ones and others."
McNickle and Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce reversed the emergency proclamation late Friday. The city will still require store workers to wear masks, but with the amendment citizens are now just "strongly encouraged" to wear coverings, instead of requiring it.
Stillwater has a population of about 50,000 and is the location of Oklahoma State University. The university sent students home in mid-March and conducted classes online the rest of the semester.
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ABC News' Ahmad Hemingway and Jack Arnholz contributed to this report.
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